Sunit Jangir

Sunit Jangir

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As a Senior Editor at Sacnilk, Sunit Jangir leads our coverage on Indian cinema, box office analytics, and global entertainment trends. Passionate about Cricket, Sunit Jangir is an avid sports lover. He finds inspiration in other people's life stories and try to absorb them. Though introvert by nature, he doesn't feel shy when the topic is cinema and sports, particularly cricket.

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The Kerala Story Becomes The Highest-Grossing Women-Centric Indian Film
1124 days ago
Bollywood

The Kerala Story Becomes The Highest-Grossing Women-Centric Indian Film

Mumbai, May 15 - Adah Sharma-starrer drama film, The Kerala Story has become the highest-grossing women-centric Indian film of all-time at the domestic box office, beating Kangana Ranaut-fronted "Tanu Weds Manu Returns". ## Directed by Sudipto Sen, "The Kerala Story" has scored 156.69 crores net collection in 12 days, after the massive second-weekend collection of over 50 crores. It has surpassed "Tanu Weds Manu Returns" lifetime total of around 151 crores net to become the number female-led film in India.## Top 3 highest-grossing female-led films in India - ## 1. The Kerala Story - 156.69 Cr (12 days)## 2. Tanu Weds Manu Returns - 150.71 Cr## 3. Gangubai Kathiawadi - 132 cr## As far as 2023 is concerned, "The Kerala Story" also become the second-biggest Bollywood movie after surpassing Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor-fronted "Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar" which scored around 147 crores net collection. TKS is only behind Shah Rukh Khan's "Pathaan" which scored over 500 crores net this year.## "The Kerala Story", meanwhile, has already become a huge blockbuster for the makers. It was made on a low budget of around 15 crores and it will end up as one of the most profitable Indian films of all time. The movie is expected to finish around 250 crores net collection.## Stay tuned...

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Varun Dhawan To Team Up With Atlee For A Mass Entertainer
1124 days ago
Bollywood

Varun Dhawan To Team Up With Atlee For A Mass Entertainer

Mumbai, May 15 - Director Atlee is gearing up for the release of his maiden Bollywood movie "Jawan" starring superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in September this year. While "Jawan" marks his directorial debut in Bollywood, the filmmaker has locked his next but this time as a producer. ## Over the last year, there have been rumours that Varun Dhawan and Atlee would collaborate for a mass entertainer. Varun too has expressed his wish to work with the filmmaker for an out-and-out action entertainer and now, as per the latest reports, the duo is finally coming together.## According to reports, Varun has been in talks with Atlee for a while now and they have finally decided to work together. It further revealed that Atlee would be producing the movie with Murad Khetani. The makers are currently working on finalizing the rest of the cast and crew.## The movie is said to be the adaptation of Thalapathy Vijay's "Theri" in which new characters will be added with a plot twist. Tamil director Kalees will reportedly be directing this film which will be shot over a period of four to five months as the makers are planning to release this yet-untitled movie in the Summer of 2024.## Varun Dhawan, meanwhile, has completed the shoot of director Nitesh Tiwari's romantic action drama "Bawaal", co-starring Janhvi Kapoor as the female lead, which will release in October this year. He is currently shooting for Amazon Prime Video's "Citadel" co-starring Samantha Rukh Prabhu and also has the sequel to "Bhediya" for 2025 release. Atlee's film will be his immediate next big screen entertainer after "Bawaal".## Stay tuned...

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Jyothika Joins Ajay Devgn and R Madhavan In Vikas Bahl's Supernatural Thriller Film
1124 days ago
Bollywood

Jyothika Joins Ajay Devgn and R Madhavan In Vikas Bahl's Supernatural Thriller Film

Mumbai, May 15 - Bollywood star Ajay Devgn's yet untitled supernatural thriller film with director Vikas Bahl is getting bigger on the casting front with supremely talented actors coming on board. ## After the announcement of the movie recently, the makers roped in R Madhavan to play a key role and now, Tamil actress Jyothika has been confirmed to play a prominent role in the film. This marks Jyotika's return to Hindi cinema after more than two decades. ## The last time Jyotika was seen in a Hindi film was in the multilingual movie "Little John" (2000) which was released in Tamil, Hindi, and English. She made her acting debut with "Doli Saja Ke Rakhna" (1998) and that is the only direct Bollywood movie she has done in her two-decade-plus-long career.## The upcoming movie will see her sharing screen space with Ajay Devgn for the first time. With Ajay Devgn, R Madhavan, and Jyotika on board, audience anticipation for this untitled film is extremely high. The shoot of the film will start in June this year and it will be shot extensively in Mumbai, Mussoorie, and London over the time period of two months. It will be produced by Ajay Devgn Ffilm and Panorama Studios. ## Jyotika, meanwhile, will also be seen in the biographical drama film "Sri" in which she has been roped in with Rajkummar Rao, and Alaya F. ## JYOTIKA JOINS AJAY DEVGN - R MADHAVAN FOR SUPERNATURAL THRILLER… #Jyotika returns to #Hindi films after two decades, will share screen space with #AjayDevgn and #RMadhavan in #PanoramaStudios’ supernatural thriller, directed by #VikasBahl… The film - not titled yet - will go on… pic.twitter.com/O5mjMis7ZH— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) May 15, 2023 ## Stay tuned...

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The Kerala Story Second Sunday Early Estimates
1125 days ago
Bollywood

The Kerala Story Second Sunday Early Estimates

Mumbai, May 14 - After scoring the biggest single day of its box office run yesterday, The Kerala Story exploded further on its second Sunday to register its biggest day so far.## As per the early estimates, the blockbuster movie scored an estimated 23 crores net collection, including around 50 lacs in the dubbed Telugu version. There is a possibility for the Hindi version to hit 23 crores net today which remains to see. ## The total collection of The Kerala Story has reached around 136 crores net in just 10 days, and it will cross "Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar" by tomorrow or Tuesday to become the second biggest Bollywood movie of the year. TKS is heading for a lifetime finish of over 200 crores net. ## While TKS is performing exceptionally well, Vidyut Jammwal's IB 71 has put in a decent opening weekend total by scoring around 7.50 crores net, after an estimated 3.20 crores net on Sunday. Despite not having a huge buzz, the spy thriller has done well to find its footing in the TKS wave. ## "IB71" will look to finish around 25 crores net which will be a decent result for it as the budget of the movie is not huge. Word of mouth about the movie is positive which should help it during the weekdays and then score decently on the weekend. ## Stay tuned...

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Producer Ritesh Sidhwani Gives A Major Update On Shah Rukh Khan's 'Don 3'
1125 days ago
Bollywood

Producer Ritesh Sidhwani Gives A Major Update On Shah Rukh Khan's 'Don 3'

Mumbai, May 14 - The third installment of superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Don has been in the making for a long time but it kept getting delayed. And just when fans' hope started getting shattered, producer Ritesh Sidhwani provides a major update on Don 3. ## During a recent interview, Ritesh Sidhwani confirmed that Farhan Akhtar is in the phase of completing the script soon and once it gets locked, the makers will take the next step. The co-partner with Farhan Akhtar at Excel Entertainment, Ritesh further said that the team is excited and waiting to see Don on the big screen soon. ## The first "Don" movie was released in 2006, followed by the second installment in 2011 with SRK and Priyanka Chopra among others reprising their roles. The first part is the remake of Amitabh Bachchan's 1978 film of the same name as Excel Entertainment bought the rights. ## Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan is currently shooting for Rajkumar Hirani's "Dunki" which is slated to release on Christmas this year (as of now). Before "Dunki", SRK will be seen in director Atlee's mass entertainer "Jawan" for which the shoot is completed and it is scheduled for September 7, 2023, release.## Apart from the aforementioned films, SRK will be seen playing a cameo as Pathaan in Salman Khan-fronted "Tiger 3", and then, will start the hugely anticipated "Tiger vs Pathaan", in which he teamed up with Salman for a full-fledged role for the first time in more than two decades, in January 2024. ## Stay tuned...

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The Kerala Story Second Saturday Early Estimates
1126 days ago
Bollywood

The Kerala Story Second Saturday Early Estimates

Mumbai, May 13 - The blockbuster hit The Kerala Story stormed into the 100 crores net club in some style by recording the biggest single-day collection of its box office run so far. ## After scoring an excellent second Friday, the drama film went into beast mode and scored an estimated 19+ crores net collection on its second Saturday. The movie has shot at hitting 20 crores net depending on where the night shows finish. ## The second Saturday collection of the movie takes total domestic cume to around 112 crores in just 9 days, making it the 4th Bollywood movie of the year to enter the 100 crore club. With this, The Kerala Story also crossed Salman Khan's Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan's domestic total of around 110 crores net.## Directed by Sudipto Sen, The Kerala Story is showing the same trend as Vivek Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files on a day-wise basis. Even though these types of movies don't get affected much by new releases still the lack of strong competition from new films has ensured another super solid week for The Kerala Story. ## On tomorrow (Sunday), the movie will easily score over 20 crores net for over 50 crores net second weekend total. The next target of the movie will be breaching 200 crores club and in all probability, it will get there by next weekend, and then, it will be interesting to see where it finishes.## Stay tuned...

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The Kerala Story Second Friday Early Estimates
1127 days ago
Bollywood

The Kerala Story Second Friday Early Estimates

Mumbai, May 12 - After putting excellent box office collection in the first week, blockbuster film The Kerala Story begins the second weekend on a solid note with collections in a similar range as yesterday.## The film is showing a remarkable trend in the second weekend, and despite a number of new releases, The Kerala Story scored an estimated 12-13 crores net collection on its second Friday. The total collection of the movie now reached over 93 crores and it will be hitting the 100 crores mark tomorrow.## Directed by Sudipto Sen, TKS is putting on a strong show all over, especially in the Maharashtra region. The advance booking for Saturday and Sunday is super solid, indicating a huge second weekend on the card, and will easily top the first-weekend collection. ## As said earlier, TKS will be looking to score the biggest second week for an Indian movie of 2023 by challenging Shah Rukh Khan's "Pathaan" second-week collection of 91.50 crores net. It will also easily end up becoming the second-biggest Bollywood movie of the year, behind only "Pathaan". ## Stay tuned...

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Ajay Devgn Team Up With Director Vikas Bahl To Headline A Supernatural Thriller Film
1127 days ago
Bollywood

Ajay Devgn Team Up With Director Vikas Bahl To Headline A Supernatural Thriller Film

Mumbai, May 12 - Bollywood star Ajay Devgn has teamed up with director Vikas Bahl for a supernatural thriller film. ## It marks the return of Ajay Devgn to the horror space genre after more than a decade and this yet-untitled movie will be produced by Ajay Devgn, Kumar Mangat Pathak, and Abhishek Pathak under Ajay Devgn Ffilm and Panorama Studios. ## The film is currently the pre-production work and will go on floors in June this year. The film will be shot in Mumbai, Mussoorie, and London over the period of the next 2 months. The entire team is excited to bring this unique spin-chilling experience to the big screen next year.## Ajay Devgn, who was last seen in the action thriller "Bholaa", is currently shooting for director Abhishek Kapoor's next and has also completed most of the shoot of Neeraj Pandey's thriller film "Auron Mein Kaha Dum Tha". ## Meanwhile, the "Drishyam" star will start director Rohit Shetty's highly-awaited "Singham Again" in August this year as the movie is slated to hit screens during the Independence Day 2024 weekend. The actor will next be seen in the sports biopic "Maidaan" which is scheduled for June 23 release.## Stay tuned...

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The Kerala Story Scored Record-Breaking Opening Week At The Box Office
1127 days ago
Bollywood

The Kerala Story Scored Record-Breaking Opening Week At The Box Office

Mumbai, May 12 - The blockbuster hit of the year The Kerala Story scored a sensational first-week collection at the domestic box office. The movie is led by a female cast which created an all-time record for an Indian film domestically.## Directed by Sudipto Sen, The Kerala Story scored 81.36 crores net collection, which is the biggest ever opening week box office for a female-centric film, beating Alia Bhatt's "Gangubai Kathiwadi". TKS, however, was helped by the controversy which tempted audiences to watch it in theaters. ## Top 5 opening week grosser female-centric films - ## 1. The Kerala Story - 81.36 Cr## 2. Gangubai Kathiawadi - 68.82 Cr## 3. Manikarnika The Queen of Jhansi - 61.15 Cr## 4. Veere Di Wedding - 56.96 Cr## 5. Raazi - 56.59 Cr## As far as this year is concerned, The Kerala Story recorded the 4th biggest first-week collection for a Bollywood movie, behind only "Pathaan", "Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar", and "Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan". In the second week, TKS will look to challenge "Pathaan" which scored 91.50 crores net collection in Hindi.## Top opening week Bollywood grosser of 2023 (Hindi) - ## 1. Pathaan - 351 Cr (9 days)## 2. Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar - 91.32 Cr (9 days)## 3. Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan - 90.15 Cr## 4. The Kerala Story - 81.36 Cr## 5. Bholaa - 59.98 Cr (8 days)## The Kerala Story stars Adah Sharma alongside Yogita Bihani, Sonia Balani, and Siddhi Idnani in the key roles. The plot follows the story of a group of women from Kerala who are converted to Islam and join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).## Stay tuned...

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Aditya Dhar's 'The Immortal Ashwatthama' Is Back On Track With Allu Arjun In Talks To Headline
1127 days ago
Bollywood

Aditya Dhar's 'The Immortal Ashwatthama' Is Back On Track With Allu Arjun In Talks To Headline

Mumbai, May 12 - It looks like director Aditya Dhar is hellbent on making his dream project The Immortal Ashwatthama a reality. Despite the continued setbacks, the filmmaker is leaving no stone unturned to make this big-budget epic happen, and in this process, the project seems to have gotten another life. ## Recently, it was reported that "The Immortal Ashwatthama" was put on hold by Jio Studios indefinitely over budget issues, but now, as per the latest reports, the studio and Dhar are in early talks with superstar Allu Arjun to revive this. ## According to Pinkvilla, "The filmmaker and top officials at Jio Studios are in talks with Allu Arjun to play the lead. The conversations are in the initial stages at the moment, and Allu has shown some interest in the unique and ambitious world of the film".## The report further states that a couple of meetings between Allu Arjun and the makers have already taken place over the last few months. The movie is ambitious and the involvement of AA will definitely take to the next year if things materialize which remains to see.## Allu Arjun, meanwhile, has his hands full of blockbuster titles. He is currently shooting for the highly-awaited "Pushpa - The Rule" and also has Sandeep Reddy Vanga's next along with Trivikram Srinivas' movie. ## Stay tuned...

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Akshay Kumar-Fronted Jaswant Singh's Biopic To Be Titled 'The Great Indian Rescue'
1127 days ago
Bollywood

Akshay Kumar-Fronted Jaswant Singh's Biopic To Be Titled 'The Great Indian Rescue'

Mumbai, May 12 - Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar hasn't had much success in the last couple of years, and now, the hopes are pinned on his upcoming films which promise to show his versatility as an actor. ## Before the covid-19 pandemic, Akshay delivered back-to-back hits by portraying real-life characters, and one of his upcoming films falls in a similar genre. It is known to everyone that the Khiladi Kumar of Bollywood is doing the biopic of the late Jaswant Singh Gill, a former additional chief mining engineer.## Gill is renowned for his remarkable rescue operation in 1989, where he saved the lives of 65 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in Raniganj, West Bengal. It has been reported that the movie was titled "Capsule Gill", however, the makers never confirmed the same and have been keeping mum about it.## Now, according to Bollywood Hungama, the movie has been titled The Great Indian Rescue. "The makers feel that it does justice to the plot of the film. Also, they believe that title mein dum hai. It is based on an incredible real rescue mission and what better title than The Great Indian Rescue", the report says.## Akshay plays the titular role of Jaswant Singh in the film which also stars Parineeti Chopra as the female lead. Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai and produced by Pooja Entertainment, "The Great Indian Rescue" is scheduled to release in theaters later this year.## Stay tuned...

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Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan Heads For Below 200 Crores Finish At The Worldwide Box Office
1127 days ago
Bollywood

Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan Heads For Below 200 Crores Finish At The Worldwide Box Office

Mumbai, May 12 - Superstar Salman Khan's family action drama Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan has completed 3 weeks with an underwhelming box office collection. ## Though the movie still has performed way better than most of the Bollywood films post the covid-19 pandemic those numbers don't justify the stardom of Salman. At the end of the 3rd week, KKBKKJ grossed around 183 crores worldwide, including 130+ crores domestically and over 52 crores overseas.## The film, directed by Farhad Samji, at once looked like a sure shot 200+ crores worldwide grosser but after the Eid opening weekend, it tanked badly and couldn't rise after that. The movie is likely to gross another 1 crore more to around 184 crores finish which is below average number for a Salman Khan film.## Irrespective of where the film finishes at the box office from hereon, KKBKKJ is already the 3rd highest-grossing Bollywood movie of the year, after "Pathaan" and "Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar". One would feel that the movie has been saved by the stardom of Salman otherwise this could have bitten the dust on the opening weekend after the poor critics' reviews.## Produced by Salman Khan Films in association with Zee Studios, the film stars Salman Khan in the title role Pooja Hegde, Venkatesh, and Jagapathi Babu with an ensemble supporting cast. ## Stay tuned...

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